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Sweet Thing

By HíLDA DAVIS | 25 OCT 2017

By Viviane Sassen — *Ant's Mosey too.* Courtesy of Omygodtom

this
lonely
attracts
men
to my ankles,
the way
the drip of a mango
causes fire ants
to find their teeth.

Hílda Davis is a first generation Costa Rican American from Staten Island, New York. She is currently mending old wounds to love you better. She lives in Indianapolis, where she is an educator.

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"Girlhood" and "Southern Charm"

By STEVIE EDWARDS

So you said I love you / into the seventh glass of dry wine, / as the hurricane declared your street / a river.

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Peel

By XUELI WANG

“I want you to come to me / and peel back my hair.”

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Procession of Flies

By NATHAN XAVIER OSORIO

The tongue remembers all kinds of things / like your name and the blood I ring out from it.